Dave Cope joined Purfresh in 2004 as chief marketing officer and was promoted to CEO in 2006. Prior to Purfresh he was president and CEO of BizGenics and held a variety of executive positions for Extricity, Marimba, Illustra, and IBM. Mr. Cope holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and biochemistry from San Jose State University.
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What are your current sources of deal flow? Padmaja: There are various sources. One is, of course, our own members. For each of them, if you look at our website and go through the profiles of our investors, you can see that they themselves are brands
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the eighth interview in our series on seed financing and angel investing. I am talking to Padmaja Ruparel, president of Indian Angel Network. She is based in New Delhi, India. Irina: Hi, Padmaja. Let’s start with your telling us a little bit about yourself. Padmaja:
LivingSocial is an online community that connects more than 85 million people and powers group buying through Deals, its social commerce program. Through Deals, LivingSocial users and their friends can save 50%–70% or more each day on restaurants, spas, sporting events, hotels, and other local attractions in major cities. The company is also the creator
SM: Essentially you are saying that CA’s vision was the enticing factor for the sale? GR: They had a very clear vision. The more people we met with and the more time we spent with them, the more their vision became clear. It was a very similar vision to our own.
Dhiraj Kumaar is a technology consultant and entrepreneur who has over 15 years of industry experience. He founded EAIVision LLC (www.eaivision.com), which provides “technology vision” to companies and has worked on several projects with Fortune 500 companies and projects from around the world. He has an MBA in finance and a bachelor’s of engineering. Interests
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News pours in from all quarters . . . Apple sells 3 million iPads in 80 days. Amazon cuts prices of Kindle. The e-books market is heating up, and as far as I am concerned, the two key players that matter are Amazon and Apple. Why?